Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-08-19
TIE GLENN ELI.

The Statesman takes THE REVIEW
to task for defending the Glenn bill
that passed the Georgia legislature
for the education of white
and colored children in different
schools. Considering the fact thu At
is a matter concerning the STATE of
Georgia alone, and that it was passed
with only two dissenting votes, the
criticism of the northern republican
press comes with as i'll grace, as
though the southern press were to
criticise Oregon's fishery law. 1t is.
none of their business, but che wit who
laboriously, with the assistance Of the
AHa, edits the Statesman, assumes
that the people of Georgia are unani-
mously wrong, and that he and his
colleagues who would palsy" all who
disagree with them, are right.
Not single good thing can come
from the co-education of the races, but
that has nothing to do with the .StateS-
mans position. Unless the republi-
can press can FIRE the northern heart,
unless it can handy the words, traitors,
rebels, eic, it has no
hope Of success in the next national
contest No subject is to be earnestly
discussed, but only TRADE of abuse
is to be kept up, the "paisy" factory is
to he run on extra time, the south is
to be abused, the bloody chasm re
opened, every attempt to bring the
two sections closer toge ther, to heal
the scars of the war, to make ore
grand union of hearts as we'll as Of
states is to be ridiculcd with cheap
wit and filthy words.
1t is time for the American people
to understand all this. 1t is time for
them to appreciate the fact that the
people of one state arc ust as patrl,
otic, just as American as those Of
another, and that the grand problcn
of self-govcrnment is as dear to -
true American as to another. There
is no treason abroad i'll the land, save
that partisan rancor that deals il
palsy" that loses sight of all good ii
a blind idolatrous worship of The repub
lican party, claiming that it possesse.
all the intelligence, all the patriotism
all the morality in the land. There /,
more danger to be expected to oul free
institutions from the propagation Of
q feeling of hatred, from clinging tc
dead issues, from a general desire t.
"palsy" the hand, tongue and brain Of 8
political opponent, than there is to ht
found in the legislation of any stat,
concerning its own people only.
The Statesman has no iutercs
III the matter. 1t does rot care ;
copper whether the Georgia Legislature
separates the races in the publ,
schools Or whether it permits miscegon
alton. It is for Blaine for President
and it will hunt with the hounds o.
run with the fox as may best enure Il
the benefit of that ceaseless, uDtiring
ambitious demagogue, but while it i
ON the subject of the mixture Of race
would it advocate in our own state o
Oregon the education of white ehildrol
with the Chinesel
The southern people have gray,
issues before t hem, but they are Amer
lean citizens, sprung from the sam
grand old Anglo Saxon blood, tha
for centuries and centuries has prorcl
its determination and its right to sell
government With a jealcns-eycd re
publican press that watches even th
most obscure southern country pape
for some intimation of treason, 70
some disloyal sentiment concerning tn
old flag, for some sigh for the los
cause, nothing can be found. What
ever of sectional hatred is to be engcn
dered must como from that mcrccnar
republican press that sees in Jimm
Blaine all the virtues Of the age, mus
come from the Tuttles with thei
threats against the personal safety c
the President of the United States
from the Fairchiids with their tripl
palsy factory.